I was just reading up on this as I always have issues with group chats because everyone uses iphones except for me, and naturally, they see me as being the issue, when in reality it's Apple's weird way of doing things and their walled garden approach.
Airmessage enables you to essentially setup your own imessage server and your texts then get relayed through it, and show up as if you were using imessage instead of SMS and I assume will open up features like being able to send/receive high res video. But also less issues with not receiving texts altogether, or one issue I keep facing is receiving them multiple times, and other related issues. I assume it will be as if I'm using an iphone.
Curious if anyone using this and how reliable it is? It does require to get a mac to act as the server so I would probably just use a mac mini and put it in my server rack. What I'm not sure about is how does this work from a technical standpoint. Like when someone sends me a text and they are using iphone how will the phone network know that I have this setup, and to relay the text through imessage to the server, do I need to register my phone number somewhere and register the server too? Also what happens if my internet goes down, will it fall back to SMS or will it just fail completely where I don't get any texts anymore? I Would probably host this on my home network which itself is very reliable as I'm on -48v power with solar fail over but my internet does go down sometimes.
Also how do you handle roaming between outside your home network and inside? I get that you would need to port forward it to the internet, but what happens when you are home and you are on your network, does the app have an option to specify to connect to the local IP when you're on your own network? You can't connect to the outside from the inside.
Curious if anyone is running a setup like this, and how well does it work in practice?
I might just bite the bullet and get an iphone like everyone else next upgrade and that will solve lot of my issues... but this is a length I am willing to go to avoid doing that.
Of course it would be better if everyone just switched to a more universal messaging setup like Signal, but I would never convince people like my parents to do that.
Airmessage enables you to essentially setup your own imessage server and your texts then get relayed through it, and show up as if you were using imessage instead of SMS and I assume will open up features like being able to send/receive high res video. But also less issues with not receiving texts altogether, or one issue I keep facing is receiving them multiple times, and other related issues. I assume it will be as if I'm using an iphone.
Curious if anyone using this and how reliable it is? It does require to get a mac to act as the server so I would probably just use a mac mini and put it in my server rack. What I'm not sure about is how does this work from a technical standpoint. Like when someone sends me a text and they are using iphone how will the phone network know that I have this setup, and to relay the text through imessage to the server, do I need to register my phone number somewhere and register the server too? Also what happens if my internet goes down, will it fall back to SMS or will it just fail completely where I don't get any texts anymore? I Would probably host this on my home network which itself is very reliable as I'm on -48v power with solar fail over but my internet does go down sometimes.
Also how do you handle roaming between outside your home network and inside? I get that you would need to port forward it to the internet, but what happens when you are home and you are on your network, does the app have an option to specify to connect to the local IP when you're on your own network? You can't connect to the outside from the inside.
Curious if anyone is running a setup like this, and how well does it work in practice?
I might just bite the bullet and get an iphone like everyone else next upgrade and that will solve lot of my issues... but this is a length I am willing to go to avoid doing that.
Of course it would be better if everyone just switched to a more universal messaging setup like Signal, but I would never convince people like my parents to do that.
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